FAW Toyota, an automobile joint venture between FAW Group and Toyota, is going to stop producing the Toyota Prado 3.5L vehicles for hardly meeting China's Stage 6 Emission Standard, according to the Chengdu Environmental Protection Bureau.
A document released on the authority's official website revealed that Sichuan FAW Toyota Motor will remove the annual capacity of 45,000 units of Toyota Prado SUVs. The automaker started manufacturing the Prado 2.7L vehicles in 2015. Then, more than 75,000 vehicles were output within 31 months after the model hit the market. Affected by emission policies, power performance and parallel-import vehicles, the company finally finished the production of the 2.7L version at the end of October 2017. The existing vehicles sold on the market are all equipped with 3.5L engine.
With the impending implementation of China's Stage 6 Emission Standard, the present engine emission is hard to reach the new level. Besides, according to the Measures for Calculation of Passenger Vehicles' Corporate Average Fuel Consumption, automakers should achieve the goal of reducing the average fuel consumption by passenger vehicle products in China to 5 liters/100km by 2020, or they will be fined. However, the current average fuel consumption for the Prado 3.5L is still 11 liter/100km, which will no longer be suitable for the post-2020 market.
